I just called CVS to deal with some prescription issues (for all their commercials about how you can get your prescriptions anywhere, it is an enormous pain when you want to switch back to getting them at your usual pharmacy once vacation is over), and they didn't ask for my name, just my date of birth. I guess I'm the only person with that birth date to get prescriptions at this CVS?
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Hil R. - Jul 30, 2013 8:51:37 am PDT #2414 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
§ ita § - Jul 30, 2013 8:58:18 am PDT #2415 of 30002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I guess I'm the only person with that birth date to get prescriptions at this CVS?
Or they recognise you somehow else but need you to still do the security dance. Wouldn't the birthday problem apply here?
What CVS doesn't make clear is that you can only move a prescription x number of times, where x is an odd number. Well, that was true when I used to go there. Walgreens has not capped me yet for switching between near work and home and that other one.
flea - Jul 30, 2013 9:06:05 am PDT #2416 of 30002
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Hil, I'd guess they pulled your record based on your phone number automatically, and asked for birthdate for security. (Signed, looks up people's library card accounts fairly often now.)
Hil R. - Jul 30, 2013 9:12:56 am PDT #2417 of 30002
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Ah. That makes sense.
sj - Jul 30, 2013 10:17:57 am PDT #2418 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Ack, is right, Pix.
P-C, that is really lovely.
Shit I can't actually stay out loud to relatives: So, when we're in your area if we don't stay at your home, you'll never speak to us again, but when you're here, you cannot find an hour out of your busy schedule to see our house?
Beverly - Jul 30, 2013 10:23:09 am PDT #2419 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Oh sj, say it. Seriously, odds are they haven't even realized. Or maybe I just have an iron hide and wouldn't care if they never spoke to me again if they couldn't be bothered to accept my hospitality.
I'm in a mean and cranky mood today, though. So a whole damn saltshaker is definitely indicated.
I do have enough empathy to feel for Pix and puppy, though. Poor you, and poor wee doggy. NSM the ants.
P-C, it is lovely, and thank you for sharing it with us.
sj - Jul 30, 2013 10:23:42 am PDT #2420 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Tea:
TCG has a job interview this evening. Any spare job~ma would be appreciated.
Beverly - Jul 30, 2013 10:25:20 am PDT #2421 of 30002
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
Many much ~ma, TCG!
Laura - Jul 30, 2013 10:25:30 am PDT #2422 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Job~ma for TCG.
sj - Jul 30, 2013 10:28:45 am PDT #2423 of 30002
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Oh sj, say it. Seriously, odds are they haven't even realized. Or maybe I just have an iron hide and wouldn't care if they never spoke to me again if they couldn't be bothered to accept my hospitality.
No, it's in-laws, so I'm just going to shut up. But there seem to be a lot of people in our lives (and TCG feels this way too so it's not just me being crazy) who expect us to go out of our way to accommodate them and their schedule, but cannot accommodate us in any way when the situation is reversed. Of course, we also have many wonderful people in our live who are not this way at all, for which I am grateful.